What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Why Him?’ and ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’

By JOSHUA BARONE

March 18, 2017

“Why Him?,” the crass comedy that pits Bryan Cranston against James Franco, arrives on iTunes. And “Ice Age: Collision Course” makes its way to the small screen on HBO and its streaming platforms.

What’s Streaming

From left, James Franco, Keegan-Michael Key and Bryan Cranston in “Why Him?”

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WHY HIM? (2016) on iTunes. Bryan Cranston and James Franco are at odds in this comedy in which they play stand-ins for opposing generations: older, more proper men and the offensive whippersnappers of the future. But don’t expect a profound satire. The movie “is trite, crass and insultingly moronic,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times. “Shoveling expletives into the holes where jokes ought to be — a road too often traveled in today’s R-rated comedies — the director, John Hamburg, and Ian Helfer produce a screenplay that’s shockingly lazy and painfully attenuated.”

LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHTon BroadwayHD.com. This website’s live stream from the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles is available on demand through Tuesday. Jane Kaczmarek (“Malcolm in the Middle”) and Alfred Molina (“Chocolat”) star as Mary and James Tyrone, the parents in Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, among the greatest American dramas in history. Set aside four hours, and a whole lot of tissues.

MOMMY’S LITTLE BOY (2017) 8 p.m. on Lifetime. This channel’s latest original movie tells the gnarly story of Eric, 10, and his mother, Briana, who falls into a deep depression after her other son, Max, drowns. Eric becomes desperate for attention and latches onto the family of his baseball coach, Michael. Briana, in a drunken rage, later commits a fatal crime and decides to run away with Eric, who will do anything to not be taken from his surrogate family. Another new original movie, “Double Mommy,” follows at 10. In this drama, the teenager Jess discovers she is pregnant with twins — from two different fathers, her boyfriend, Ryan, and his best friend, Bryce, who date-raped her. With college scholarships and a strict father looming, Bryce will go to any length to clear his name, even if it means getting rid of Jess and the twins.

LeBron James

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NBA BASKETBALL8:30 p.m. on ABC. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers head to Los Angeles to take on Chris Paul and the Clippers. Tune in at 8 for the pregame show “NBA Countdown.”

48 HOURS10 p.m. on CBS. In “Death on Valentine’s Day,” Maureen Maher reports on and interviews Curtis Lovelace, a prosecutor and former football player who found his wife dead in their bed on Valentine’s Day in 2006. Her death was ruled “undetermined” until 2014, when Mr. Lovelace was charged with murder. (He has since been found not guilty.)